Crystalcracker. Here's the thing. You're generalizing the views of your coworkers which is not true. There are tons of people who know more about Nepal than Sri Lanka. Also, people knowing Bhutan more than Nepal is utter garbage. Like I told you, just because the "educated" people in your company know more about Sri Lanka, Bhutan and so on than Nepal doesn't make Nepal less popular. ImI took the word from my mouth and hit the bull's eye when he raised the question " What does Nepal have to offer other than the mountains?" Lets be serious now. Apart from Mount Everest, what else do we have that we could brag about. Most of the Nepalese are in illusion that because of the numbers of tourists visiting Nepal every year, Nepal is a famous country. Have we all realized how the tourists visiting Nepal compare to the tourists visiting cities such as Paris? Nepal gets abt 250,000 visitors every year ( at the maximum ) while a single city such as Paris gets 10 million visitors every year. Doesn't that say it all? Furthermore, lets not ignore the amount that those 10 million visitors spend to the tourists visiting Nepal. Isn't everything Cheap back home? This also makes me wonder if a Nepali waiter ( in a hariyo parda mo:mo pasal ) would return my 10 NRS if say I were to to leave it on the table as the tip. That's the irony! That's the truth. Nepal is one of the most underdeveloped countries. It is now called as a developing nation but only the almighty knows when it's going to develop. Tourism is the only sector in my opinion that could make Nepal famous. Due to China's and India's economic growth, there's no way that Nepal could produce IT experts as outsourcing materials.Again, Only the almighty knows what's going to happen to Nepal's IT market if an Indian were to set his sight on Nepalese market ( remember the Pashmina saga folks? ). Hope nobody has forgotton how the Indians destroyed Nepalese Pashmina Market that once accounted for Nepal's 3rd largest export. We all hear anti India sentiments, anti India slogans. If there's an economic slump, then we slack India. We point our fingers at India from every direction. But we forget that when" you point a finger, four fingers are pointing back towards you." India robs Nepal. No denying. It bullies, batters and hurts Nepal for its own betterment. But having said that, we cannot ignore the Indian donations and Indian help as well. Aren't they the biggest donors of Nepal? It's a real pathetic aspect of us Nepalese that the Indians bully us and some even forget that Nepal is an independent country. But what is there to be done? The sickf***ing morons ( maobadis that is ...forgive my french as maobadi chors and cussing are interrelated words in my mind ) aren't letting Nepal take a developing route. They haven't stopped interrogating the civilians and attacking police posts and so on. Perhaps, we could say that Maobadi chor dankas are one of the few notable things about Nepal that make us famous all over the World ( especially considering the fact that the U.S. still lists those bajiyas as terrorist group). It is saddening and a cold truth indeed. There aren't a lot of things about Nepal that will make us famous. But lets make no mistake, there is a huge group of Americans who know a lot about Nepal. After all, National Geographic ( channel and magazine ) , Travel shows and magazines, Mt. Everest., the durbar kand and the recent janaandholans were few of the notable topics discussed all over the world. Perhaps one of us could go up all the way, determined and destine ourselves to make Nepal a more famous place.